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Mesa Developers Aren't Convinced Over Dropping Old OpenGL Drivers Right Now
Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers
With a number of prominent upstream developers not agreeing to the idea at this time, it's looking like there won't be any new legacy driver branch in the near term. Among the alternative ideas raised was waiting 5+ years and then going ahead and dropping all OpenGL drivers from Mesa to focus just on the Vulkan API world... We'll see where the ecosystem is at in five years if it will be Vulkan-only (potentially with API compatibility layers atop) or how long the open-source OpenGL hardware drivers will keep on being maintained. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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